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SWARTZ CREEK, Mich. (AP) — About five people picketing in the United Auto Workers strike outside a Flint-area General Motors plant suffered minor injuries Tuesday when a vehicle leaving the plant struck them, police said. The striking workers were blocking a driveway, and an employee was trying to leave the Flint Processing Center in Swartz Creek when the collision occurred just before 4 p.m., Chief Matthew Bade of the Metro Police Authority of Genesee County said. The employee drove through the picket line to leave the plant, Bade said. “These people are out here, you know these are my membership, and they’re out here doing a peaceful, legal demonstration." The Flint Processing Center is one of 38 locations where workers walked off the job last week in the widening strike by the UAW against GM, Ford and Stellantis.

Persons: Matthew Bade, Bade, Jack Crawley, Steve Dawes, ” Dawes, Biden Organizations: United Auto Workers, General Motors, Flint Processing, Metro Police Authority, Flint Journal, UAW, GM, Ford Locations: Mich, Flint, Swartz, Genesee County, “, Michigan

☆ A Michigan city stopped people from repainting a Black Lives Matter street mural, claiming it posed 'traffic safety concerns'
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-16 | by ( Katie Balevic | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Volunteers can't repaint a Black Lives Matter mural on a main street in Flint, city officials said. But the state's transportation department said they aren't preventing the project. Edwards did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment, nor did the Flint chapter of Black Lives Matter. However, a spokesperson from the Michigan Department of Transportation denied Edwards' claim that the department would shut down the street, The Flint Journal reported. Black Lives Matter murals across the state have previously been vandalized.

Persons: Martin Luther King, Clyde Edwards, Edwards, Jocelyn Garza, Garza, It's Organizations: Service, Martin Luther King Avenue, Flint Journal, Michigan Department of Transportation, MLK Locations: Flint, Wall, Silicon, Flint , Michigan

☆ 3 sentenced to life in slaying of Michigan security guard over face mask order
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-18 | by ( The Associated Press | ) www.nbcnews.com time to read: +1 min

FLINT, Mich. — A married couple and their son convicted of first-degree premeditated murder in the fatal shooting of a security guard who demanded the woman’s daughter wear a mask while shopping were sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without parole. Larry Teague, wife Sharmel Teague, and Sharmel Teague’s son, Ramonyea Bishop, were sentenced by Genesee Circuit Court Judge Brian Pickell in the shooting death of Calvin Munerlyn on May 1, 2020. Munerlyn, 43, was shot at the store just north of downtown Flint shortly after telling Sharmel Teague’s daughter she had to leave because she lacked a mask, Genesee County Prosecutor David Leyton has said. Two men later came to the store and shot the security guard to death, investigators said. Bishop’s sister, Brya Bishop, was charged with tampering with evidence, lying to police and being an accessory to a felony.

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